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Costing and Profitability Analysis
Operational / Financial Planning
Strategic / Operational Decision Making
Multi-tier, Multi-user, Web-based - Integrates Financial and Operational data from your existing ERP systems

Business Application

The SCAplanner^TM enables speed, accuracy, and reliability along with better outcomes within the following organizational needs.

Business Planning
- Strategic Planning
- Driver Based Budgeting
Operations Analysis and Decision Support
- Sourcing Decision Analysis
- Manufacturing Optimization
- Integrated Supply Chain Optimization
New Product Pricing and Introduction
Cost Optimization

The Value

The SCAplanner^TMis a Predictive Cost Modeling and Optimization system that brings together three critical elements:

Financial modeling using Activity Based Cost Drivers
Comprehensive Supply Chain Modeling and
Cost Optimization for multiple decision-variables

The Framework

At the core of the model is a sophisticated financial and operations modeling engine that supports both simulation and optimization of a variety of “What-if” situations. Users are allowed to specify realistic business situations often faced by business managers and the model quickly churns through the outcome of such scenarios. In situations where the business manager is seeking guidance towards a solution, the model utilizes a proprietary Total Cost Optimizer that provides the best cost solutions.

Technology and Functionality

SCAplanner^TM is a multi-tier, multi-user, web-based product with a scalable architecture. It uses the latest technologies such as JAVA, HTML, J2EE, XML for development and runtime environment. These technologies allow:

.Functionality	Description
Data Upload	Accepts files from Excel, MS-Access, Flatfiles Integrates with legacy systems (ODBC compliant)
Data Validation	Configurable rules to ensure validity of data being uploaded into the system
Activity-Driver Simulation	Automated generation of activity driver levels using an operations model as the basis for simulation
Costing	Configurable Activity Based Costing allowing users to link financial items to activity-drivers
Optimization	Powerful Mixed Integer based Optimization engine that optimizes against a broad range of decision variables
Reporting	Multiple formats such as HTML, MS-Excel / Word / Powerpoint, Adobe-Acrobat
User Administration	Ability to set permissions and manage user access for data and functionality such as upload, simulation, costing and reports
Security	User / Password authentication Secure Socket Layer (SSL) support for 128-bit encryption for all client-server interactions
Hosting	Users can either host the application on their servers, or have SCA host the application